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Drone War Creating More Enemies Than it Destroys
In the pre-dawn hours Thursday Hellfire missiles fired from a U.S. drone turned a farmhouse in rural Yemen into a smoldering heap of...
Balloons From South Korea Send Hope to the North
North Korea, one of the most miserable places on the planet, has threatened South Korea with artillery and missile fire if South Korean...
Read moreU.S. Drones Kill 16 in Pakistan; Victims Left Unidentified
On October 11, 16 "suspected militants" were killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan. As has become standard operating procedure for such...
Read moreSecond October Socialist Revolution
Twenty years after the alleged fall of communism and the demise of the Soviet Union, KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn's predictions from his books...
Read moreSon of Drone Victim Sues Pakistani Gov’t for Not Protecting its Citizens
There might be one way to influence U.S. policymakers to postpone the airborne assassinations using drone strikes. Noor Khan has filed suit against...
Read moreAre Syrian Rebel Forces as Bad as Assad?
Members of Congress have pointed to the violence in Syria as an opportunity to launch a humanitarian effort, i.e., a military endeavor, to...
Read moreDrone Strike in Yemen Kills Five
The Associated Press (AP), quoting Yemeni security officials, reports that a drone believed to be American fired missiles at two cars late Thursday...
Read moreSuicide Bomber Kills 19 in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber on foot attacked a joint patrol of coalition and Afghan forces in the crowded center Khost in eastern Afghanistan Monday,...
Read moreRussian Red Jihad
The recent wave of Islamic terrorism and radicalism in the Middle East, from the Arab Spring to the recent September 11, 2012 Benghazi...
Read moreUN Chief Calls for End to Syria War; Obama Vows More Aid for Rebels
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called for an end to arms shipments to both sides in Syria’s brutal war between Western-backed rebels and...
Read moreAnti-Japanese Protests Fanning Out Across China
A small archipelago in the East China Sea — known to Japan as the Senkaku Islands and to China as the Diaoyu Islands — is...
Read moreConcerning China
China has made tremendous strides in the world economy in the last 30 years, and many are predicting this progress to continue. But...
Read moreIslamist Mob Attacks U.S. Embassy in Yemen; Analysts Cite Blowback
An Islamist mob stormed the U.S. embassy in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a, torching a building after tearing down the American flag and...
Read moreIsrael and U.S. Spar Over Iran Nuclear Program
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has indicated that the United States and Israel are engaged in talks about the best approach to Iran’s...
Read moreU.S.-funded Jihadist “Holy War” in Syria Seeks Sharia Dictatorship
Contrary to claims by Western governments and Islamist tyrants financing the “revolution” in Syria, foreign jihadist forces and al Qaeda terrorists battling the...
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